hi thanks for your responce its always a pleasure to deal with nice people who try to help others here we go i did burn .pte file thru videobuilder file size is about 1.2 gig overall time for everything took about 25 minutes i did try to put in back in the computer to playback and it told me that its a blank cd and the format was raw strange to me am i missing dodec stuff? i did download the the new videobuilder 5.11 and i could play it with dvd player but not with the computer (windows media etc.) i did check the back of the dvd and it look burned cleanly what am i doing wrong?